Photoacoustic Imaging: Self‐Assembly of Semiconducting Polymer Amphiphiles for In Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging (Adv. Funct. Mater. 8/2017)

The design and synthesis of near-infrared absorbing semiconducting polymer amphiphiles that can spontaneously self-assemble into homogenous nanoparticles for dual-modality imaging is reported by Kanyi Pu and co-workers in article number 1605397. Such organic nanoparticles can passively target the tumor of living mice after systemic administration, permitting both photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging of tumor.